How does FOOD ADDICTION fit into the larger historical and cultural context of Substance Use and Abuse? Dr. David Courtwight talks to us at Food Junkies about how the forces of history allowed sugar to become a drug with large-scale toxic consequences.
David Courtwright is a University of North Florida emeritus professor of history, whose focus of study has been on the history of drug use, drug policy, and the history of public health. Specifically, his research on drug history spans four centuries, allowing him to develop a unique perspective on the development of psychoactive drug use from the exotic small-scale use to the broad determinants of drug use and social behavior. How has history influenced our drug use, and how has our drug use shaped history?
He is the author of books:
Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World,
Addicts Who Survived: An Oral History of Narcotic Addiction before 1945,
Dark Paradise: A History O Opiates Addiction in America and most recently,
The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits become Big Business.
In these books, he draws upon historical, scientific, literary arts, and public policy references - to show how drug usage has been forged by market forces as well as cultural habits.
We at Food Junkies Podcast are keen to see how processed food, seen in this context as a drug, has enabled thousands of us to develop a food addiction. And to see how food addiction fits into this larger historical and cultural perspective of substance use and abuse.
In this episode we discuss:
Personal – how did Dr. Courtwright get into the history of addiction
his definition of Limbic Capitalism and the pleasure circuitry
What is the food industry?
What is Digital Addiction
Activism & Awareness of Addiction
Sugar taxes and public policy as a response to Limbic Capitalism
Dr. Courtwright’s latest book: The Age of Addiction – How Bad Habits Became Big Business
Consumerist Dystopia
Harm Reduction
Solutions – graffiti campaigns, public health notices, clever propaganda, class action suits
Find Dr. Courtwright:
Website:
Books:
- The Age of Addiction
- No Right Turn
- Sky As Frontier
- Forces of Habit
-D ark Paradise
- Violent Land
- Addicts Who Survived =sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1378394255&sr=1-7
The content of our show is educational only. It does not supplement or supersede the professional relationship and direction of your healthcare provider. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified mental health providers with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition, substance use disorder, or mental health concern.
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